MCA new logo
Nov 16th, 2006 by Tian
Good idea James Wong! A few month ago Adnan Yakob suggested a change in Umno logo from keris to something else. Now Pemuda Umno insists that keris is no bad feng shui. Hishamuddin Hussein Onn was proudly waving keris again. No offence, peace loving Malaysians, this is the way Umno tell all of us to behave.
Should MCA contemplate on a change of logo?
Man, when I heard Harry Jamban and his boss talking, I thought they were inciting racial feelings. To say that the malays will ask for 70% of the equity was a bit much. But thats probably what they want. 70% for the malays, 30% for foreigners, and Chinese and Indians can be the servants to the malays, just like the example set by MIC and MCA.
Why didn’t AAB step in and censure them in his speech? It’s a sad day for the country and its future. The tongkat policy is going to continue until the malays become cripples. And the country goes down the drain. But what does UMNO care? They can only think of themselves and their children. They are not thinking for the future of the country, and their people.
What can we do to displace these parasites who have been in power since independence?
Subject: FW: MALAYSIA BOLEH?
> While Malaysia fiddles, its opportunities are running dry
By Michael Backman The Age November 15, 2006
MALAYSIA’S been at it again, arguing about what proportion of the
economy each of its two main races ? the Malays and the Chinese ?
owns. It’s an argument that’s been running for 40 years. That wealth
and race are not synonymous is important for national cohesion, but
really it’s time Malaysia grew up. It’s a tough world out there and
there can be little sympathy for a country that prefers to argue about
how to divide wealth rather than get on with the job of creating it.
The long-held aim is for 30 per cent of corporate equity to be in
Malay hands, but the figure that the Government uses to justify
handing over huge swathes of public companies to Malays but not to
other races is absurd. It bases its figure on equity valued, not at
market value, but at par value. Many shares have a par value of say $1
but a market value of $12. And so the Government figure (18.9 per cent
is the most recent figure) is a gross underestimate. Last month a
paper by a researcher at a local think-tank came up with a figure of
45 per cent based on actual stock prices. All hell broke loose. The
paper was withdrawn and the researcher resigned in protest. Part of
the problem is that he is Chinese. “Malaysia boleh!” is Malaysia’s
national catch cry. It translates to “Malaysia can!” and Malaysia
certainly can. Few countries are as good at wasting money. It is
richly endowed with natural resources and the national obsession seems
to be to extract these, sell them off and then collectively spray the
proceeds up against the wall. This all happens in the context of
Malaysia’s grossly inflated sense of its place in the world. Most
Malaysians are convinced that the eyes of the world are on their
country and that their leaders are world figures. This is thanks to
Malaysia’s tame media and the bravado of former prime minister
Mahathir Mohamad. The truth is, few people on the streets of London or
New York could point to Malaysia on a map much less name its prime
minister or capital city. As if to make this point, a recent episode
of The Simpsons features a newsreader trying to announce that a tidal
wave had hit some place called Kuala Lumpur. He couldn’t pronounce the
city’s name and so made up one, as if no-one cared anyway. But the
joke was on the script writers ? Kuala Lumpur is inland. Petronas, the
national oil company is well run, particularly when compared to the
disaster that passes for a national oil company in neighbouring
Indonesia. But in some respects, this is Malaysia’s problem. The very
success of Petronas means that it is used to underwrite all manner of
excess. The KLCC development in central Kuala Lumpur is an example. It
includes the Twin Towers, the tallest buildings in the world when they
were built, which was their point. It certainly wasn’t that there was
an office shortage in Kuala Lumpur ? there wasn’t. Malaysians are very
proud of these towers. Goodness knows why. They had little to do with
them. The money for them came out of the ground and the engineering
was contracted out to South Korean companies. They don’t even run the
shopping centre that’s beneath them. That’s handled by Australia’s
Westfield. Next year, a Malaysian astronaut will go into space aboard
a Russian rocket ? the first Malay in space. And the cost? $RM95
million ($A34.3 million), to be footed by Malaysian taxpayers. The
Science and Technology Minister has said that a moon landing in 2020
is the next target, aboard a US flight. There’s no indication of what
the Americans will charge for this, assuming there’s even a chance
that they will consider it. But what is Malaysia getting by using the
space programs of others as a taxi service? There are no obvious
technical benefits, but no doubt Malaysians will be told once again,
that they are “boleh”. The trouble is, they’re not. It’s not their
space program. Back in July, the Government announced that it would
spend $RM490 million on a sports complex near the London Olympics site
so that Malaysian athletes can train there and “get used to cold
weather”. But the summer Olympics are held in the summer. So what is
the complex’s real purpose? The dozens of goodwill missions by
ministers and bureaucrats to London to check on the centre’s
construction and then on the athletes while they train might provide a
clue. Bank bale outs, a formula one racing track, an entire new
capital city ? Petronas has paid for them all. It’s been an orgy of
nonsense that Malaysia can ill afford. Why? Because Malaysia’s oil
will run out in about 19 years. As it is, Malaysia will become a net
oil importer in 2011 ? that’s just five years away. So it’s in this
context that the latest debate about race and wealth is so sad. It is
time to move on, time to prepare the economy for life after oil. But,
like Nero fiddling while Rome burned, the Malaysian Government is more
interested in stunts like sending a Malaysian into space when
Malaysia’s inadequate schools could have done with the cash, and
arguing about wealth distribution using transparently ridiculous
statistics. That’s not Malaysia “boleh”, that’s Malaysia “bodoh”
(stupid).
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If any non-malay had tried similar stunts he would probably be in trouble for creating racial tension, but ok for UMNO youth leaders to do so. Where is the understanding from these people? Are they trying to incite racial feelings so that there is another may 13, and then they can rewrite the social contract? These are ot leaders. They are conmen and businessmen. Pity, that theya re very successful in conning people.
Hairy Jamban’s statement of 70% for malays was also provocative. What is he implying, 70% for malays, 30% for foreigners, and chinese and indians can leave?
The sad part is a second generation indonesian can get better righhts than a 3rd generation chinese? Please remind me, what are the privileges of citizenship for a chinese and indian? We are weaker than many other pendatang. Many johnny come latelies are in government, How can something like this be fair?
I used to put my money loyally in malaysian banks, and i used to only fill up with petronas. All that has changed. I bank in a singaporean bank operating in malaysia and I use shell.
And I am actively looking to leave this country. I dont see a future for me and worse still for my children.
I believe many non-malays will be looking to flee.
It;s sad that we can be third class citizens in the country we were born. I doubt this happens anywhere else in the world.
I am sure if we have a general election straight after the UMNO general assembly, the tides will change. The UMNOputras may well fool the thousands in the PWTC audience that day but I don’t think they can fool the millions of reasonable minded malaysians (malay and non-malay)